Shul member Tom Byrne makes the “Jews in the News” column this month with an announcement that he will appear as Sigmund Freud in a dramatic reading of a new play by Jerry Levin, a member of North Fork Reform Synagogue. The reading will be held on Sunday, June 12, 4 p.m., at the Peconic Community Center on Peconic Lane. Admission free; vaccination required; masks appreciated; registration required at northforkreformsynagogue.org/.

In the playwright’s imagination, Freud, who founded psychoanalysis, and Theodore Herzl, who was instrumental in the creation of the State of Israel, live on the same street in Vienna. Each is transformed by the time in which they live: the rise throughout Europe of nationalism and antisemitism, and the personal and political motivations of each of the two extraordinary men. The result: a clash of giants.

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